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Speciflcation of Letters Patent. v Patented Feb, 7, 1922 Application flled December 8, 19420. Serial 110. 429,063.

To allwhomz'tmay concern: I 4

Be it known that I, EDWARD K. Borrnn, a citizen of the United States, residing'at town of Elmira, in the county of Chemung and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Sales Books, of which the followin is 'a full, clear, and exact description, .sue as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to manifolding devices, and with respect to its more specific features, to manifoldingsales books.

One of the objects of the invention is the provision of a practical sales book of such construction that its capabilities of use are increased and a close check kept upon the sales slips. v

Another object of the invention is the provision of a practical sales book involving a tissue intersheet, which latter is -not so a t to be accidentally separated from the boo nor torn.

elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the lowing claims.

*In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, wherein1 similar reference characters refer to similar partsA throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a manfolding sales ad embodying the invention;

v opaque paper, and 3 is a secon or duplicate sheet of similar paper, these two sheets being integral, in the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 2, and'folded along the line 30 which is a weakened line. The sheets 2 and 3 form a pair of superposed sheets, and whereas they are formed from an integral piece, folded at 30 as indicated, they 'may be formed separate and joined along the line 30. The numeral 4 indicates a third sheet which, in the embodiment illustrated in Fig.

2, is a translucent sheet, as a tissue sheet.y

, lon itudinally of the sheet so as to form a mu tiple-ply sheet. In the embodiment illustra-ted in Fig. 2 the tissue sheet 4 is adhesively connected to the'original sheet 2 at the end 5 of the original sheet where a portion of the area of the two sheets is pasted together by a suitable adhesive indi:-

-cated -by the oblique lines in the drawing.

Similarly the sheets 2 and 4 are pasted together along a plurality of areas indicated at 6 and 7 intermediate the ends of the original sheet 2. Between the adhesively connected areas of the original sheet 2 and the tissue sheet 4, these two sheets are uncon-v nected, so that when the adhesively joined parts are separated or torn from each other, complete separation of the sheets 2 and 4 is efected.

The duplicate sheetv 3 is enough longer than the original sheet 2 to form an extended portion 8 adapted with other similar sheets 3 and attached sheets 2 to be bound in a pad, as by means of staples 9. The

numeral 10 indicates a sheet of double-faced transfer or carbon paper which may be bound with the 9, and lies between the duplicate sheet 3 and the tissue sheet 4, ithe outer end 11 of the carbon sheet 10 beingjree so that as the transcribed sheets are torn from the book the carbon will be' retained in the book and rest, upon the under sheets ready to be placed in manifolding relation.

Along one of the transverse, margins of the adhering areas 6 and 7 the original sheet 2 and the tissue sheet 4 are provided with weakened lines as indicated at 12 and 13 in the present embodiment.

In operation the original sheet 2 with its adhering intersheet 4 is drawn back into the position illustrated, for instance, in Fig. 1, which wll'permit the carbon sheet 10 to fall pad by means of the staples place relative to each other.

on the uppermost duplicate sheet 3. Thereupon the sheets 2 and 4 are folded down onto the carbon and the desired inscriptions may be made on the original sheet. vThese inscriptions will be duplicated upon the underlying sheet 3 and also upon the under face of the tissue sheet 4. Thereupon the sheet 3 may be torn from the pad along the weakened line 14 and may be separated from the sheets 2 and 4 by tearing along the weakened line 30. Also the multiple-ply record section included by the original sheet 2 and tissue sheet 4 may be divided alon the weakened lines 12 and 13, thus provi ing, in the embodiment illustrated., three multiple-ply record sections, each including an original record on the opaque sheet section 2 and a duplicate record on the tissue sheet section 4.

By connecting the intersheet 4 to the original sheet at a plurality of points spaced apart from each other as explained, the intersheet is effectively maintained in registry at all times with the original sheet so that'any printedforms thereon take their proper F urtheri'nore, by attaching these two sheets together at a 'plurality of areas, and especially when the areas of attachment occur near the ends of the two sheets, the two sheets may be manipulated practically as a single sheet with but a.minimum chance of the intersheet being torn. This is especially desirable when the intersheet is a tissue sheet and consequently more readily torn. The provision of the multiple-ply sheet sections finds especial utility in many situations. In systems of keeping accounts involving the operation of manifold sales books, various memoranda are made in duplicate, but are intended to be torn from thebook in connected condition, forwarded to the office, and subsequentlv the duplicate sections torn apart. The present embodiment provides for the makin of such duplicate memoranda'and permits t e transportation of the sheets in attached condition with assurance that they will 'not' be separated until separation is subsequentlyL purposely efi'ected.

In the above description reference has been made particularly to the sheets 2 and 3 with the intersheet 4 attached. It is to be understood that the pad 1 is composed of a series of such sheets in superposed `relation and bound together as illustrated.l

In some instances, as when a tissue intersheet is not desired, the intersheet may be of the same material as the opaque record `sheets 2 and 3. Under such circumstances a convenient way of providing the intersheet is illustrated in Fig. 3, where the intersheet is shown at 15, the same being an integral extension or leaf of the sheet 2 folded and weakened along the line indicated at 16, and pasted to the underside of the sheet 2 at the areas indicated at 17 and 18,

the inner end of the intersheet being free as indicated at 19. Like the sheets 2 and 4, the margins of the pasted areas 17 and 18 are provided with weakened lines as indicated at 20 and 21 for the more ready division of the multiple ply sheet into multiple ply sections. I

Thus by the above described construction are accomplished, among others, the objects hereinbefore referred to. I

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpretedas illustrative and not in a limiting sense. i

It is also to be understood 'that the langna e used in the following claims is inten ed to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall tlierebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A manifolding sales book including, in combination, a pair of superposed sheets adhesively connected together at a plurality of areas spaced apart longitudinally of the sheets, said sheets being unconnected between adjacent' areas. 2. VA manifolding sales book including, in combination, a pair o'f superposed sheets adlesively connected together at a plurality of areas spaced apart longitudinally of the sheets, said sheets being unconnected between adjacent areas, said sheets having weakened lines along one of the transverse margins of one or more of said adhering areas.

3. A manifolding sales book including, in combination, a pair of superposed sheets adhesively connected together at a plurality of areas spaced apart longitudinally of the sheets, said sheets being unconnected between adjacent areas, one of said sheets having a weakened line along one of the transverse margins of one or more of said adhering areas.

4. A manifolding sales book including, in combination, a pair of'superposed sheets adhesively connected together at a plurality of areas spaced apart longitudinally of the sheets, said sheets being unconnected between adjacent areas, one of said sheets being a tissue sheet.

5. A manifolding sales book including, in combination, a pair of superposed sheets adhesively connected together at a plurality of areas spaced apart longitudinally of the sheets, said sheets being unconnected between adjacent areas, said sheets having weakened l139 lines along one of the transverse margins of one or more of said adhering areas, one of said sheets being a tissue sheet.

G. A manifolding sales book including, in combination, a pair of superposed sheets adhesively'connected together at a plurality of areas spaced apart longitu'dinally oi the sheets, said sheets being unconnected between adjacent areas, one of said sheets having a Weakened line along one of the transverse margins of one or more of said adhering areas, one of said sheets being a tissue sheet.

7. A manifolding sales book including, in combination, a pair of superposed sheets adhesively connected together at at least two separate areas spaced apart, thereby providing at least two multiple-ply record sections.

8. A manifolding sales book including, in combination, a pair of superposed sheets adhesively connected together at at least two' separate areas spaced apart, thereby providing at least two multiple-ply record sections, one of said sheets being translucent.

9. A manifolding sales book including, in combination, a pair of superposed sheets conne-cted together along a plurality of lines spaced apart longitudinally of the sheets, one of said lines of connectionincluding adhesively connected areas intermediate the ends of one sheet.

10. A manifolding sales book including, in combination, a folded sheet providing -relatively superposed leaves, two of said leaves being adhesively connected together along an area spaced from the fold of the sheet.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, I

in the presence of two witnesses.

EDXVARD KIRBY BOTTLE.

Witnesses:

H. L. GENTHUN, C. E. PAULL. 

